Musically Speaking

Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) is the unfamiliar name in the middle of our April program. Until a few years ago his name and music were completely unknown to me. My first encounter was while seated in the balcony at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam awaiting the start of what was to be a really splendid concert performed [...]

The second concert of our twenty-seventh season offers music that in at least three different ways brings the outside, or the outsider, in.
Chamber music began as one of the domestic, interior arts within the family, the church, or the court. The best known of the evening’s three works, Johannes Brahms’ Trio for Violin, Horn and [...]